http://www.weeklystandard.com/weblogs/TWSFP/2009/09/state_department_gitmo_detaine.asp State Department: Gitmo Detainees Are "Refugees" A Republican sends over this video of the State Department press briefing today, in which Assistant Secretary P.J. Crowley calls Gitmo detainees "refugees" at about the 24-minute mark. QUESTION: Talk to us a little bit about response and talks and any commitments that you may have gotten from our European and other friends in the international community about taking in Guantanamo detainees as the camp in Guantanamo is expected to close at some point in the near future. Have you gotten any commitments from our European friends and anybody else? CROWLEY: Ambassador Dan Fried continues his efforts to resettle, you know, Guantanamo refugees to various places around the world. The whole video http://www.thefoxnation.com/gitmo/2009/10/21/state-department-gitmo-detainees-are-refugees Nice!!!
LOL. Have you ever seen a group that generated so much controversy over what to call them? The Bush admin had to label them "detainees" instead of calling them prisoners ( a word normally reserved for people who are in... uh oh....). Calling them prisoners raised nasty questions about the Geneva Convention, to which we're a signatory. Now Obama's boys are gonna screw up and start calling them names that indicate they're poor victims displaced by the cruel vicissitudes of war. Maybe we could find ONE word to describe guys that are caught shooting at our troops. I vote for "corpse".